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Edison Chandler III says:

Message for Khatia Buniatishvili and her manager:

It has been made repeatedly clear that the angle of communication for Ms. Buniatishvili is based less on musical ability and more on physical appearance, with no limit to its vulgarity. By focussing so heavily on this dimension, you are going down a dangerous path for a musical career.

There is nothing wrong with highlighting physical attributes, but when they are repeatedly presented as the main “sales argument” the “career” and the attention and branding generated by using that angle will ONLY last as long as the physical attributes last. Ms. Buniatishvili is now 34 years old. It is highly unlikely that she will be in the form and shape to pose like this in 4 or 5 years. Since she has built her “musical” image/career on her physical image, it is only logical that when that physical image is no longer present, the musical image/career will disappear with it.

Good management along with an intelligent artist can master the balance in the “branding”, the delicate balance between selling the artist/musician and subtly highlighting that with an erotic/sexual dimension, if it exists. Believing that by repeatedly and nearly exclusively presenting Khatia Buniatishvili as a “sex bomb” that will create a career is extremely naive and short-sighted, as the career will end when the curves are no longer quite so curvy and when she looks like a woman in her 40’s! So, based on that, I would give her career no more than 4 or 5 years, maximum.